Serena Williams’ meltdown at the US Open against Naomi Osaka is something that will stay in the history books.
Serena’s tantrum went through 3 faces.
1st Code Violations – Coaching
Serena had a code violation in the 2nd point of the 2nd game for coaching. Later her coach Patrick Mouratoglou admitted that he was coaching Serena.
“I was 100% coaching” says Patrick, Serena’s coach. “Everyone does it, it’s time to to stop the discrimination Rafael’s coach does it all the time and he’s never gotten the violation”#UsOpenFinal #SerenaVsOsaka #SerenaWilliams pic.twitter.com/GSQ2RnN7d2
— Daniel Gonzalez III (@TheThirdDanielG) September 8, 2018
“I don’t cheat to win, I rather lose.” – The legendary Serena Williams schooling Carlos Ramos, who should know better that she doesn’t do illegal coaching #usopen pic.twitter.com/CsoyuHubTC
— Andrew Jerell Jones (@sluggahjells) September 8, 2018
2nd Code Violation – Racket smashing
When leading 3-1 in the second set, Serena got mad in the 5th game after she committed 2 double faults and she smashed her racket. At that point, the chair umpire, the respected Albert Ramos, had to give another code violation and Serena lost the point with Osaka starting to serve from 15-0.
sonofthebronx: Serena Williams slams down her racket ESPN U.S. Open Tennis: Women’s Championship https://t.co/bWabazCyBn pic.twitter.com/RpvnKd5Syx
— FanSportsClips (@FanSportsClips) September 8, 2018
3rd Code Violation – The meltdown against the umpire
After Osaka won that game (she was then leading 6-2 4-3), Serena just lost it during the changeover, saying nasty things to the umpire and asking him an apology. After that, Ramos had to follow the rules and Serena was penalized of 1 game. Then everything happened and the American couldn’t hold her tears on court.
Finally, Osaka kept her cool and later she served out the match before winning 6-2 6-4.
The umpires to boycott Serena’s matches
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